Will Singapore adopt new political attitude? Yes, our teachers lacked confidence

Responding to a student who asked if Singapore would adopt a new political attitude or stick to its Asian values stance, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said: 'We need to be more self-confident.'

He related how when he became education minister in 1997, he was surprised to find that teachers lacked confidence in themselves, even though they were doing a great job.

'Everybody was telling them that they were doing the wrong things,' he said. 'I said: How can this be? People are coming to learn from us, see how we teach, why we are successful. Yet our teachers don't have self-confidence.'

-- Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister


What? You don't get him? Come on! You just have to use a bit of imagination and relate very indirectly his good old lim-peh-used-to-be story to the question! Don't be daft!